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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS PSC Regular Meeting - Opening Session - Tuesday, April 08, 2025 Public Services Commission (PSC) April 8, 2025 · 0.1 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/_DuFEYrltX0 Status This is NOT the official transcript. 3 V.I.C. § 884 requires the agency itself to make a verbatim record of its proceedings and reduce it to a transcript within sixty days. This is a working transcript produced by machine from a recording of the proceeding, offered as a finding aid. Transcribed by VI Update, using OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, run locally. Not reviewed by a person. Reliability Automatic transcription, UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording before relying on it. Speech recognition splits spoken digits and wraps figures mid-number, so a dollar amount, a vote count or a bill number can be wrong in a way that reads as correct. 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Please copy it, quote it, index it, train on it, republish it, mirror it, sell it. Redistribution is the point: a public record with one copy is one fire from gone. No permission is needed, and none is ours to grant or withhold. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning everyone, I'd like to call the public services um permission needed of april 8 2025 to order uh can we have a roll call please mr tory can you hear us 0:00:00 unmute you have to unmute mr tori just press the phone sign on the arm remote is that better yes okay now okay we can hear you just fine Okay, can we go to roll call, please? Roll call. Commissioner McGrath? Present. 0:01:54 Commissioner Sams? Commissioner Nichols Sams? Commissioner Raymond Williams? Commissioner Williams excused? Commissioner Hughes? Present. we have three members present uh a quorum is achieved i'd also like to add to the record that um our ex-officio members senator kala joseph submitted a correspondence requesting to be excused all right so she's excused have we received the name of another ex-officio no we have not we haven't received any um further submissions from the legislature regarding uh the the St. Croix ex-officio member. We're going to proceed with today's agenda. 0:02:36 Hopefully promises to be a short one, but we'll see. Next item on the agenda is a request for an executive session. For what reason would the commission need to go to executive session? there are three reasons for today's executive session uh we have a discussion of some personnel matters for engagement retaining consultants and hearing examiners we have discussion of confidential proprietary information from one of our regular regular utilities and we have the provision of legal advice regarding some pending matters for the commission all right i've heard that is their motion so moved is there a second second they're moved and seconded to go to executive session roll call roll call uh commissioner mcgrass yes commissioner nicole sams commissioner raymond williams excuse commissioner hughes yes commissioner pedro williams yes mr chair we have three voting yay the motion is approved okay this time the commission will go into executive session um we'll excuse everyone you know it's not needed for the executive session and then we'll resume uh we anticipate that this will last for a little over an hour about an hour so hopefully we'll be back with the public session about 9 30 i mean 10 30. 0:03:57 Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 1 of 2 Public Services Commission (PSC) · PSC Regular Meeting - Opening Session - Tuesday, Apri People named in this transcript SUSPECTED, and a finding aid only. Names were matched by machine against the spellings used across all 426 of our transcripts, and the title is the one used in the room. Being named here is NOT evidence that a person attended or spoke · only that the name was said. Speech recognition mishears names, so a spelling may be wrong even where no alternative is offered. 3x Commissioner Raymond Williams the surname alone also matches: Pedro Williams heard in this transcript as: Williams 2x Commissioner Clement McGrath heard in this transcript as: McGrath 2x Commissioner David Hughes heard in this transcript as: Hughes Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. 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